Poetry analysis within the scope of ecopoetry: The voice of nature in ecopoetry

Humankind has been in contact with nature since the beginning of his existence. Being vulnerable in the early stages of this relationship, humankind lived according to the rules of nature and in harmony with it. He attributed meanings to the natural phenomenon occurred around him for he had limited knowledge of what was happening. Nature was symbolizing an incredible power that was providing and giving him not only shelter but food as well. However, man increased his knowledge about nature each passing day, which led him to see himself as superior to nature and began exploiting nature as he wished. This increase led him to see himself as superior to nature and he began exploiting nature as he wished. The thought that man considered himself superior to nature formed the basis of ecological problems and it was the beginning of irreversible consequences of human destruction of nature for his own benefit, especially with the age of enlightenment's human-centered ideas and the subsequent industrial revolution. When humankind has realized that the exploitation of nature ultimately harms him, he has started to look for ways to compensate for the harm that he has done to nature. Literature has put forward the relation of humans with the environment in written works, and many writers have written numerous works in order to raise the environmental awareness of humans. As a result of this conscious raising, ecocritical theory and one of its sub-disciplines ecopoetry began to flourish all over the world. The purpose of this study is to study the emergence, origin, development, and status of ecopoetry a subset of ecocriticism. Furthermore, the aim of this study is to reveal a comprehensive review of ecocriticism. In the final chapter, I will try to analyze poems of various ecopoets through an ecopoetic perspective. Although ecocriticism has started to ensure its place in the literature of our country, as in the literature of many other countries, the fact that ecopoetry remains in the background and does not receive enough attention in the literary world is the main reason that led me to write this thesis about ecopoetry. Keywords: Ecocriticism, Ecopoetry, Nature, Human, Space, Place